UnixWare 7 NFB Graphics Driver Development Kit

The xlinkkit package includes utilities, #include files, libraries, and makefiles for developing a NFB graphics driver for UnixWare 7:

/usr/src/ihvkit/display/README
Describes how to get started

/usr/src/ihvkit/display/xmkddx
Script to create templates for your driver

/usr/src/ihvkit/display/Xserver/hw/sco/ports/nte
Sample driver source

Version 7.1.0 of the xlinkkit package differs from previous versions in the following ways:

  • pkgchk errors eliminated

For current information about the entire UnixWare/OpenServer Hardware Developers Kit (HDK) release, see the HDK Release Notes.

Note: Documentation references on this page link to the Product Documentation. They are also available on your local system when the baseMAN, HDKdoc, and HDKman packages are installed.

System requirements

This package has the following dependencies:

base
Base System

basex
X11R6 Base X runtime

xfonts
X11R6 Fonts

xserver
X11R6 X Server

This package cannot be installed on OpenServer systems. Similar tools for OpenServer are provided in the O5xlinkit package.

Before attempting to build and package drivers with the X Link Kit, you must also install the following packages on your UnixWare 7 system:

usoftint
Software Packaging Tools (included with the UDK)

cmds
Advanced Commands

See the UDK documentation for more information.

Installation

Before installing this version of the xlinkkit package on your system, you must remove any earlier versions.

To install the package from:

downloaded files

  1. Log in as root.
  2. Download the package to an installation directory; for example, /tmp.
  3. Use the pkgadd(1M) command to install it by entering:
    pkgadd  -d  /tmp/xlinkkit

media distribution

  1. Log in as root.
  2. Insert the CD-ROM in the drive
  3. Use the pkgadd(1M) command to install it by entering:
    pkgadd  -d  cdrom1  xlinkkit

Configuration

All files are extracted to the /usr/src/ihvkit/display directory. Read the instructions in README in this directory before running the xmkddx script to create driver templates.

For more information

More information concerning NFB graphics drivers may be found in Developing NFB graphics adapter driver.

The xtests package contains test suites that can be used to test NFB graphics drivers on both OpenServer and UnixWare 7 systems.